And the blood I taste, the blood I swallow/ Is as far away from wine/ As 5:10 is for the one who dies/ At 5:09.
— Alan Shapiro
words/ turn mysteriously against those who use them.
— Jack Spicer
They’re not that different from you, are they? Same haircuts. Full of hormones, just like you. Invincible, just like you feel. The world is their oyster. They believe they're destined for great things, just like many of you; their eyes are full of hope, just like you. Did they wait until it was too late to make from their lives even one iota of what they were capable? Because, you see gentlemen, these boys are now fertilizing daffodils. But if you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? - Carpe - hear it? - Carpe. Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary. -- John Keating, "The Dead Poets Society."
Words are things which just happen to be in your head instead of someone else's head. --Jack Spicer
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in. --Arlo Guthrie
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity. --Albert Einstein
The gods too are fond of a joke. --Aristotle
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. --Albert Einstein
Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them. --Madeleine L'Engle
I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everyboy's right to beautiful, radiant things. --Emma Goldman
It is not every day that we are needed! Not indeed that we personally are needed! But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us represent worthily for once the foul brood to which a cruel fate consigned us! --Vladimir, Waiting for Godot
The only thing I do know... is that we have to be kind. Please, be kind - especially when we don't know what's going on. -- Waymond Wang, Everything Everywhere All At Once